[dalereed]

in the 40s when I was going with my wife I regularly hit 150 in my Olds powered 40 coupe between Los Angeles and UCSB between Thousand Oaks and Santa Barbara.

Back then the cops couldn't go over 100 and they didn't have helicopters.

[Sir_Ed]

Weren’t you afraid the tires would blow?

They didn’t have Eagles and Pirellis and such back then...were the tires still capable of taking sustained 150 mph speeds?

Ed

[altair]

in the 40s when I was going with my wife I regularly hit 150 in my Olds powered 40 coupe between Los Angeles and UCSB between Thousand Oaks and Santa Barbara.

Heh. That would be US 101 and it's a tempting area to speed in. More is the pity, because it's really beautiful country.

They've long since corrected it. That stretch of road is now always patrolled and one of the biggest speed traps in the US. My final day as a speeder when I was young, was to try to make San Luis Obispo to Anaheim in 2 hours. Got nailed in Thousand Oaks.

Fortunately for me, the cop wrote me up for 1 mph less than where the most serious penalties kicked in. Fortunately for everyone else, I learned my lesson and haven't willfully broken the speed limit since. Win-win, I suppose.

[fabian]

I once hit 65 mph on the 101 in my ‘72 honda 3 cylinder mini car...does that count??